297 BC
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| Centuries: | 4th century BC - 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC |
| Decades: | 320s BC 310s BC 300s BC - 290s BC - 280s BC 270s BC 260s BC |
| Years: | 300 BC 299 BC 298 BC - 297 BC - 296 BC 295 BC 294 BC |
| 297 BC by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders - Sovereign states | |
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| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
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| Gregorian calendar | 297 BC |
| Ab urbe condita | 457 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Bahá'í calendar | -2140 – -2139 |
| Berber calendar | 654 |
| Buddhist calendar | 248 |
| Burmese calendar | -934 |
| Chinese calendar | 2340/2400 ([[Sexagenary cycle|]]年) — to —
2341/2401(甲子年) |
| Coptic calendar | -580 – -579 |
| Ethiopian calendar | -304 – -303 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3464 – 3465 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | -241 – -240 |
| - Shaka Samvat | N/A |
| - Kali Yuga | 2805 – 2806 |
| Holocene calendar | 9704 |
| Iranian calendar | 918 BP – 917 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 946 BH – 945 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 2037 |
| Thai solar calendar | 247 |
[edit] Events
[edit] By place
[edit] Roman Republic
- Fabius Maximus Rullianus becomes consul for the fourth time. He defeats the Samnites in a battle near Tifernum.
[edit] Greece
- Following Cassander's death from illness, Philip IV, Cassander's eldest son, succeeds his father as King of Macedon, but soon after coming to the throne suffers from a wasting disease and dies. Antipater, the next son, rules jointly with his brother Alexander V.
- Demetrius Poliorcetes returns to Greece with the aim of becoming master of Macedonia. While Demetrius is in Greece, Lysimachus seizes his possessions in Asia Minor.
- Ptolemy decides to support Pyrrhus of Epirus and restores him to his kingdom. At first Pyrrhus reigns with a kinsman, Neoptolemus II of Epirus (who is a son of Cleopatra of Macedonia and a nephew of Alexander the Great), but soon he has him assassinated.
[edit] India
- Chandragupta Maurya goes to Sravana Belagola near Mysore to live in the way of Jains.
- Bindusara his son ascends to the Pataliputra throne.
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
- King Cassander of Macedon (one of the diadochoi ("successors"), the Macedonian generals who have fought over the empire of Alexander the Great after his death) (b. c. 358 BC)
